Re: BEg2 chapter 15 Igor’s Limo

[Mark Kohut]

more from the article on the dark web, spying, the growth of refusing to
allow sales to companies that make weapons of mass destruction and putting
it to israel:

" In November, the United States announced what appeared — at least to
those who knew about its previous dealings — to be a complete about-face on
NSO. The Commerce Department
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/business/nso-group-spyware-blacklist.html>was
adding the Israeli firm
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/business/nso-group-spyware-blacklist.html>
 to its “entity list”
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/business/nso-group-spyware-blacklist.html>
 for activities “contrary to the national security or foreign policy
interests of the United States.” The list, originally designed to prevent
U.S. companies from selling to nations or other entities that might be in
the business of manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, had in recent
years come to include several cyberweapons companies. NSO could no longer
buy critical supplies from American firms."

On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 1:09 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> “Maxine notices a Cyrillic bumper sticker, which as she is shortly to learn
> reads MY OTHER LIMO IS A MAYBACH, for this vehicle here turns out,
> actually, to be a ZiL-41047, brought over piece by piece from Russia,
> reassembled in Brooklyn, and belonging to Igor….”
>
>
> https://youtu.be/DfcyUecHcVE
> Nice bkgd music!
>
>
> https://1cars.org/10425-zil-41047-specifications-modifications-photo-video-review.html
>
> “The Russian design team chose a different way – they decided to weld an
> armored capsule, and then to build a car around it! Such a device is not
> completely suitable for mass production, in connection with this, only 25
> such armored capsules were made at the Kurgan plant. Of these, 5 were
> designed for fire tests. This unique machine of the Likhachev plant has a
> maximum degree of safety.”
>
>
> Produced in very small numbers for the highest officials / oligarchs.  Igor
> is a big shot.
>
>
> ZIL - auto manufacturing plant near Moscow started in 1916 now defunct,
> demolished & per Wikipedia slated to be a real estate development site for
> LSR, huge construction conglomerate.
> --
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>